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Bookings that belong to the rest of your business

Calendly, Acuity and Square Appointments put a booking page in front of your calendar, priced per seat or per location. FasterOS sets your hours once and lets people book real openings from your own site, and every booking is a record your team can report on, follow up with an agent and keep beside the customer’s orders and requests.

• No per-seat bill Bookings are included. Your team is $1 a month a person, for everything.
• Real openings Your hours, buffers, booking length and how many fit in a slot, set once.
• Records, not just events Every booking can be reported on, followed up and kept with the customer’s other records.
• One place The site, forms, store and team chat that bookings sit inside.

What's different underneath

Priced for the business, not each calendar

Calendly charges per seat: Standard $10 and Teams $16 a person a month, billed yearly. Acuity prices by how many staff calendars you need: $16 for one, $27 for up to six, $49 for up to 36. Square Appointments is free for one location, then $29 or $69 a location a month.

Calendars and bookings are part of FasterOS. You pay for the people who build ($5 a month each) and the team members who use it ($1 each), and hosting by use. Visitors who book are free.

Openings set once, on your hours

Each tool sets availability per person or per service, synced with each person’s own calendar, which is what makes them strong for one-to-one meetings.

Set the service, the days you’re open and each day’s hours, how long a booking is, the buffer between them, how far ahead people can book and how many fit in a slot. Close dates for holidays. Visitors see only real openings and confirm with a code sent to their email.

A booking is a record

A booking lands on a calendar and in an email. Reporting on bookings, linking them to a customer’s orders or requests, or starting a process from one means exports or an automation service.

Bookings sit with the rest of your records, beside the customer’s orders, requests and conversations. Report on them, and have an agent follow up: a thank-you, a review request, or a reminder sent on a schedule.

The business around the booking

A scheduling tool books time. The site people book from, the forms before the booking, the store, the support desk and the team’s own chat live in other tools.

Bookings sit inside your site, next to forms that price as people choose, a store, live chat and a support desk, with the team’s chat, docs and sheets in the same place.

Side by side

What it takes, and where each one comes from.

Take the same tasting bookings

A winery wants wine tastings booked Thursday to Sunday, 11 to 5, an hour each and up to eight guests a slot, on its own site, with a thank-you and a review request after each visit. Here’s what each takes.

FasterOS: 5 steps, one place

1. Create your team and invite the staff1:34 how-to
2. Create the calendar and set its hours once
3. Set an hour a booking and eight guests a slot; close holidays
4. Share it on your site
5. Describe the follow-up; an agent sends the thank-you and the review request

The first is shown start to finish in a narrated how-to. About 2 minutes of video in all.

A scheduling tool: the page, then the rest

1. Pick a plan by seats, staff calendars or locations
2. Set up the event type, hours and group size
3. Connect each person’s calendar
4. Embed the booking page on your site (built elsewhere)
5. Connect an automation or marketing tool for the follow-up and the review request
6. Export bookings to report on them

Where FasterOS falls short today: payment at booking, automatic reminders and calendar sync aren’t built yet. If a deposit or a synced calendar is the point, a scheduling tool is the better fit for now.

Your first year, priced

Our own published prices, and theirs as published or benchmarked. Change anything to match your quotes.

Each of these is one tool for one job, with its own bill. FasterOS is a platform: the first solution pays for your team’s seats, and every one after it (a site, a store, a support desk, agents) adds only its hosting and any add-on.

Beyond a booking page

What a scheduling tool leaves to other services, FasterOS does in the same place.

Your first year with each

Scheduling tools

• Add a seat or a plan tier as staff join
• Keep the booking page, the site and the follow-ups in separate tools
• Export bookings to report on them

FasterOS

• Add staff at $1 a month, for everything
• Bookings, the site and the follow-ups in one place
• Report on bookings where they already are

When a scheduling tool is the better fit

• One-to-one meetings booked against each person’s Google or Outlook calendar, with video links.
• Appointments that need a deposit or full payment when they’re booked.
• A salon or studio already running its payments and point of sale on Square.

Questions

Sources, as published in 2026: Calendly pricing (Standard $10, Teams $16 a seat a month billed yearly); Acuity Scheduling pricing (Emerging $16, Growing $27, Powerhouse $49 a month billed yearly); Square Appointments pricing (Free one location; Plus $29, Premium $69 a location a month).